sivananda

I have practiced yoga for nearly a decade now (yikes!) and taught yoga for almost 6 years. Initially, when I started practicing yoga, I simply wasn’t that interested in meditation. Sweaty vinyasa flow was more my thing. Later, my curiosity was piqued by meditation and its reported benefits but I couldn’t seem to get my “monkey mind” to settle down for 5 minutes, let alone the 20-30 that are often considered a baseline for deeper meditation practices. At my first yoga teacher training at the Sivananda Institute in 2004, we had a required 30-minute meditation practice at 6am and 8pm […]